A method to establish stimulus control and compliance with instructions

Autor: John G. Borgen, Stephanie L. Trauschke, F. Charles Mace, Kenneth Shamlian, Jillian B. Wilson, Keith Lit, Brenna M. Cavanaugh
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 50:830-842
ISSN: 0021-8855
DOI: 10.1002/jaba.419
Popis: We evaluated a unique procedure to establish compliance with instructions in four young children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who had low levels of compliance. Our procedure included methods to establish a novel therapist as a source of positive reinforcement, reliably evoke orienting responses to the therapist, increase the number of exposures to instruction-compliance-reinforcer contingencies, and minimize the number of exposures to instruction-noncompliance-no reinforcer contingencies. We further alternated between instructions with a high probability of compliance (high-p instructions) with instructions that had a prior low probability of compliance (low-p instructions) as soon as low-p instructions lost stimulus control. The intervention is discussed in relation to the conditions necessary for the development of stimulus control and as an example of a variation of translational research.
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